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Podcast: The Storytellers
Episode: Episode 85: Jeff Arch: Screenwriter of Sleepless in Seattle, Novelist of Attachments, Human
Description: Jeff Arch grew up in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where he spent two of his high school years at a boarding school much like the one depicted in ‘Attachments.’  In the 70’s, Jeff studied film/tv/theater production at Emerson College in Boston, and then moved to Los Angeles, where he worked as a concert lighting designer and toured the country with national rock and reggae acts, while teaching himself to write screenplays on the side. When a comedy he wrote opened and closed off-Broadway in the same week, Jeff went into a rebuilding period where he studied tae kwon do with a G...